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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH v2 0/6] ALSA: compress: add support to change codec profile in gapless playback
On Thu, 23 Jul 2020 15:05:22 +0200,
Vinod Koul wrote:
>
> On 23-07-20, 14:38, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > On Tue, 21 Jul 2020 19:00:01 +0200,
> > Srinivas Kandagatla wrote:
> > >
> > > For gapless playback it is possible that each track can have different
> > > codec profile with same decoder, for example we have WMA album,
> > > we may have different tracks as WMA v9, WMA v10 and so on
> > > Or if DSP's like QDSP have abililty to switch decoders on single stream
> > > for each track, then this call could be used to set new codec parameters.
> > >
> > > Existing code does not allow to change this profile while doing gapless
> > > playback.
> > >
> > > This patchset adds new SNDRV_COMPRESS_SET_CODEC_PARAMS IOCTL along with
> > > flags in capablity structure to allow userspace to set this new
> > > parameters required which switching codec profile, either for gapless
> > > or cross fade usecase.
> >
> > One idea that came up at the previous audio conference regarding this
> > implementation was to just allow SET_PARAMS during the stream is
> > running (only if the driver sets the capability) instead of
> > introducing yet a new ioctl and an ops.
> > Would it make sense?
>
> That does sound good but only issue would be that we need to somehow
> mark/document that buffer info is useless and would be discarded, how do
> we do that?

Yes, the buffer and no_wake_mode can be ignored in the gapless
re-setup. Is your concern only about the documentation? Or something
else needs to be changed significantly? It's a new scheme in anyway,
so the documentation update is required...


thanks,

Takashi

>
> > I have no big objection to add a new ioctl if other people agree,
> > though.
> >
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > Takashi
>
> --
> ~Vinod
>

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